What does ARC mean?

Definitions for ARC
ɑrk; ˈɑr kɪŋarc

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. discharge, spark, arc, electric arc, electric dischargenoun

    electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

  2. arcnoun

    a continuous portion of a circle

  3. bow, arcverb

    something curved in shape

  4. arch, curve, arcverb

    form an arch or curve

    "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"

Wiktionary

  1. arcnoun

    That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.

  2. arcnoun

    A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve.

  3. arcnoun

    A curve, in general.

  4. arcnoun

    A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.

  5. arcnoun

    A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.

  6. arcnoun

    A story arc.

  7. arcnoun

    A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically ) into a space.

  8. arcnoun

    A directed edge.

  9. arcverb

    To move following a curved path.

  10. arcverb

    To form an electrical arc.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Arcnoun

    Etymology: arcus, Lat.

    Their segments, or arcs, for the most part, exceeded not the third part of a circle. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

    Load some vain church with old theatrick state,
    Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate;
    Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all
    On some patch’d dog-hole ek’d with ends of wall. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. arc

    An arc is a portion or segment of a curved line, often described in the context of a circle or ellipse. It is a continuous piece of a curve, typically associated with the edges of a circle or any other curved figure. Additionally, in mathematics, an arc can also refer to an interval of length, surface, or space in some other curved geometrical figures.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Arcnoun

    a portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse

  2. Arcnoun

    a curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant

  3. Arcnoun

    an arch

  4. Arcnoun

    the apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night

  5. Etymology: [F. arc, L. arcus bow, arc. See Arch, n.]

Wikidata

  1. ARC

    ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates. It was very popular during the early days of networked dial-up BBS. The file format and the program were both called ARC. The ARC program made obsolete the previous use of a combination of the SQ program to compress files and the LU program to create .LBR archives, by combining both compression and archiving functions into a single program. Unlike ZIP, ARC is incapable of compressing entire directory trees. The format was subject to controversy in the 1980s—an important event in debates over what would later be known as open formats. The .arc file extension is often used for several file archive-like file types. For example, the Internet Archive uses its own ARC format to store multiple web resources into a single file. The FreeArc archiver also uses .arc extension, but uses a completely different file format. Nintendo uses an unrelated 'ARC' format for resources, such as MIDI and voice samples, in GameCube and Wii games. Several unofficial extractors exist for this type of ARC file.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Arc

    ärk, n. a segment of a circle or other curve. [O. Fr.—L. arcus, a bow.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. arc

    The segment of a circle or any curved line, by which all angles are measured.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. arc

    (Fr.). A bow; an arch in building.

Editors Contribution

  1. arc

    Arc to myself I've come to learn can possiblly be the central point of a curved half circle in structure and arc example pictorially could example the arc memorial erected in Washington and as well Chicago if I recall. If need an image view to o add with the reading definition of an arc.

    The washington and Chicago erceted structures.


    Submitted by truthfullessons1205 on December 9, 2021  

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Anagrams for ARC »

  1. car

  2. Car

  3. CAR

  4. RAC

  5. RCA

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARC in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ARC in a Sentence

  1. Alyssa Royse:

    I had a long relationship with upper leadership at HQ, i was really worried that they were making this colossal misstep not only in the arc of justice but in the health of the brand.

  2. Barack Obama:

    To dismiss the magnitude of this progress, to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed -- that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years, but we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

  3. Tim Cook:

    Over the long arc of time the iPad is a great business, i also have visibility obviously of what’s in the pipeline and feel very, very good about that.

  4. Takeshi Tsuji:

    Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world.

  5. Ray Curry:

    The arc of history will remember this great man as a beacon of light during this trying time for working men and women.

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